Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> writes:
> On 2018-04-01 13:55:05 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I'm hesitant to do that because LDFLAGS is a name known to make's
>> default rules, and I don't want to bet that we're not relying on
>> those default rules anywhere.
> FWIW, postgres builds cleanly with -r -R in MAKELAGS.
That's pretty hard to believe. Why would we bother to override every
default rule? Even if it's true today, I would not accept it as project
policy that we must do so. Perhaps more to the point, I would strongly
object to any design in which the standard Make variables don't mean
what the default rules expect them to mean. That's just a recipe for
confusing people and creating hard-to-spot bugs.
regards, tom lane
